Fir Yew I Pine - Fir Yew I Balsam ([info]ragtimematt) wrote in [info]ragtime_land,
  • Music: United States Marine Band - Washington Post March

Infernal machines...

These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of music in this country. When I was a boy... in front of every house in the summer evenings, you would find young people together singing the songs of the day or old songs. Today you hear these infernal machines going night and day. We will not have a vocal cord left. The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.

--John Philip Sousa (1906)


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[info]keeper1st

July 29 2005, 04:15:03 UTC 6 years ago

Not if the cell phone has anything to say about it...

Blah blah blah blah, yak yak yak yak... aaargh!
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